DISQUS

I love a good goo shot, but for the first time ever i'm not impressed by the shot but the penis!
I'm a guy and have only ever had clit on my tongue but that thing has me thinking of taking a sample.

In academia your are only rewarded for publishing papers in good journal. Pragmatically, there's no reward for blogging. You may think that blogging may help to network (e.g. find a co-author), but I doubt academics read blogs. They are too busy publishing papers in top journals.

Jag hoppas du tipsade om extravaganzan?

Stolt? Jag skulle nog säga fantastisk!

why the hell?!?

its not like they're pornos. Kids wouldn't go through all the trouble of getting a credit card from somewhere and renting an R rated movie.

Interesting thing I realized: Marco uses terrible grammer and types in all caps because he hasn't bother to fit in with the sort of people who regularly chat on Internet comment boards. He's too busy being popular in school to avoid being socially awkward online.
The difference is that there's a reason to fit in online. It comes naturally from practice, and online culture makes you smarter. not myspace of course, but in general finding articles like this and arguing about them is useful. You can always leave the game, or be a passive observer. And the society is far from a closed bubble, of course.
So then, why are there people as abusive as Marco? why would those who fail at being acceptable online be in any position to bully? I think it's a habit. good luck picking on the nerds on the Internet, you'll drown in reasoned debate.
by the way kristina, you're as wrong as he is. jocks aren't all stupid, and honors takes dedication. You fit in online quite well, because of your experience and intelligence, and so you bully less intelligent people who are awkward online.
nerds bullying jocks...ain't the Internet great?

Ah, the brits learn our dirty secret.
This essay makes a lot of sense to me. One thing you said was very interesting to me:

"There was something else I wanted more: to be smart. Not simply to do well in school, though that counted for something, but to design beautiful rockets, or to write well, or to understand how to program computers. In general, to make great things."

I couldn't agree more. This explains a lot. for example, I'm a grade-A nerd (quite literally) but I don't try hard on boring assignments. I can admit I' m a slacker, for several reasons. First, I don't _need_ to try hard. I get good grades anyway. but also, I'd rather work out a tricky computer program or make yet another useless geometric picture-cipher than spend extra time reviewing for a test I know I'll do well on. nerds don't have time to be popular because they're thinking about things on a more abstract level (or maybe that's just me).
I'm a nerd, but I don't care much about grades. It makes sense, really. in the article you talked about the meaninglessness of grades and tests. I'm smart enough to realize playing the game of perfect grades is a useless as popularity (well, almost). I just have more intellectually stimulating things to do than worry about my clothes. or obsess over essays.
after this rant, though, I need to add that I do try hard on interesting assignments. I'm a perfectionist if I want to write a good essay for its own sake, if not for the grades. And a good report card is the ticket I need to slack off. Pass a certain point, and you can spend class time doodling on graph paper.

My Opera would like to say it has absolutely nothing to do with it -- but the banner just won't do it any justice...

As much as I like Blogger/Blogspot (because it plainly works), checking 50 blogs doesn't hit me like a scientific sample making a serious point at whether splogs are less than 30% (which is kind of high, anyway). Depending on the time you're hitting the "next blog" button, you'll find yourself falling into splog after splog and I don't see how that flag thing is helping.

Blogspot is filled with splogs and blogs that have been dead for 4+ years. They should consider a serious clean-up.